⚡️🇨🇦 NEW - Canadian PM Mark Carney:

The truth is, over the last few decades, Canada has neither spent enough on our defense nor invested enough in our defense industries.

We’ve relied too heavily on our geography and others to protect us.

This has created vulnerabilities that we can no longer afford and dependencies that we can no longer sustain.

⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸 WATCH - Matthew Cassel, shows how Palestinians in The West Bank gets their life disrupted by the occupation - Every day is a test of patience In the West Bank

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - The new owner of Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch, Don Huffines, announces that the property is already “under construction” and is being transformed into a Christian retreat.

He says he knew it was a dark place and wanted to turn it into a place of light.

“The plan all along is to make this property into a Christian retreat.”

⚡️💬 END OF DAY - @FLASH when it comes to finding news for Nostr rather than looking for work.

⚡🇵🇸 NEW - Drop Site’s Sharif Kouddous recaps “another brutal weekend” in Gaza, with Israeli airstrikes and shelling killing at least 17 Palestinians, including 11 on Sunday alone. He noted media coverage has fallen to its lowest level in over two and a half years, even as more than 600 Palestinians have been killed since the so-called ceasefire began.

All this comes as Trump convenes a “Board of Peace” meeting in Washington on Thursday, touting $5 billion in pledges for Gaza and a troop deployment, while demanding Hamas “fully and immediately” disarm.

⚡🇺🇸 NEW - Snapchat will launch paid creator subscriptions on February 23.

⚡🇮🇷 NEW - Iran's Khamenei:

I would like to tell the dear government officials, the respected officials, that no matter how much effort they put into their work, they must double it. They must multiply it.

We have many resources. The existence of this inflation in the country is illogical. The fall in the value of the national currency to this extent is illogical. This must be corrected.

And God willing, it will be corrected. The respected officials have started some work. They must continue this work with seriousness, with accuracy, and with consideration of all aspects.

⚡🗣 NEW - TeamSpeak is currently riding a massive wave.

The official announcement confirms an "incredible surge" of new users, mostly fleeing Discord's age verification drama. It has maxed out hosting capacity in several regions, especially the US.